- Date
- April 4, 2008, 13:27 local (21:27 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N650PAFairchild Swearingen SA 227-AC
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 28, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- Anchorage FSDO
- Case key
- 67883
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The flightcrew's misjudged flare while landing.
Findings · 1
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
According to the operator's director of operations, maintenance personnel discovered damage to the twin-engine turboprop airplane during a routine, daily inspection. A review of the airplane flight logs revealed that the airplane's damage most likely occurred as the result of a hard landing event during the last flight, earlier that day. The airplane sustained structural damage to the wings and fuselage. Neither of the two pilots reported any preaccident mechanical problems with the airplane, nor did they report any hard landing event.
Factual narrative
According to the operator's director of operations, maintenance personnel discovered damage to the twin-engine turboprop airplane during a routine, daily inspection. A review of the airplane flight logs revealed that the airplane's damage most likely occurred as the result of a hard landing event during the last flight, earlier that day. The airplane sustained structural damage to the wings and fuselage. Neither of the two pilots reported any preaccident mechanical problems with the airplane, nor did they report any hard landing event.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N650PA
- Reported as
- Fairchild Swearingen SA 227-AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 775B
- Airframe hours
- 36,409
- Engine
- Garrett-AiResearch TPE 331-11U, 1,000 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Peninsula Airways Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · April 1, 2008
- Departed
- SNP · St Paul Island, AK
- Destination
- ANC · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ANC · Anchorage Intl, runway 14, 11,584 × 150 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 1, 2007
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 11,596 total · 906 in this make and model · 624 in the last 90 days · 201 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Co-pilot
- Age
- 31
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 1, 2008
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 2,598 total · 2,298 in this make and model · 236 in the last 90 days · 87 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day